Welcome to The 120 Minutes Archive, the independent, critically acclaimed, definitive library of music video nostalgia.

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Since 2003, we’ve been traveling through time to rediscover and share the legacy of MTV’s 120 Minutes, the classic U.S. TV series that exposed a vast collection of alternative music videos, artist interviews, and live performances to a diverse range of music enthusiasts across several generations.

This project captures and revisits the memories of 27 years of Music Television—this is the soundtrack of our lives.

With hundreds of volunteer contributors like you, we assembled this incredible archive from scratch, rebuilding nearly the entire history of 120 Minutes. Inside, you’ll find the playlists and music videos for 956 episodes, spanning across all of the various iterations of 120 Minutes on both MTV and MTV2 from 1986 to 2013, and Subterranean, its successor from 2003 to 2011.

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If you’d like to send us your feedback or contribute to The 120 Minutes Archive by submitting playlists for missing episodes or corrections,

Before you contribute: We will accept nearly any 120 Minutes playlist, including incomplete episodes or ones with no certain date. However, this project covers only the U.S. TV series; international editions are not included. Your contributions will become the property of tylerc.com and may be edited and/or published. By default, we’ll credit you by first name; tell us if you prefer something else.

Please understand: We can’t sell or trade any recordings or tapes. We also can’t personally answer your questions about music videos. Instead, consider asking the Internet’s hive mind at public communities like Reddit and MetaFilter.

The 120 Minutes Archive is a fully independent, non-commercial, and not-for-profit project of tylerc.com. This project is not owned or operated by MTV. Names, logos, and other trademarks are the intellectual property of their respective owners.